Francesca Mosmea is an artist based in Italy. She hand paints amazingly realistic animals on decorative pillows. The details of her paintings are incredible. She particularly likes to paint cats. This Etsy store would definitely be a great place to shop for Christmas...

We’ve talked about KEK – Amsterdam based creative homeware company – a while back. (click on the link to read more about them in our previous article) Last time we’ve featured their cardboard cat house and this time we want to share their...

Jamie Mitchell, co-founder of Ohh Deer, left his job as an Architect to set up Ohh Deer with Mark Callaby. They started Ooh Deer to bring us quirky illustrated gifts, clothing, homeware, stationery and everything else. They launched the company in November 2011 and...

Liekeland is founded by Lieke van der Vorst a Dutch illustrator. Her studio is based in Helmond. Lieke lives Dave and her cat Lino. Lieke use environmentally friendly paper - FSC-certified paper by Arctic Paper - from a Swedish company which produces sustainable paper...

Alexander Vidal (Alexander Santillanes) is an illustator and designer based in Los Angeles, USA. He studied illustration at the Art Center College of Design. He loves india ink, hippopotomai, and dry gin. His favourite drink is Gin & Tonic. (So is ours!) Vidal...

Takashi Tsushima is a Japanese illustrator that we discovered while searching around Pinterest for talented designers and artists. He used to be an illustrator in an advertising company then moved on to freelance work. From 1999-2007, he worked as a...

An Argentinian design studio, Estudio Guardabosques, has created a wonderful world of geometric paper animals from a tiger, bear, fox and raccoon to numerous birds. The designs are precise, with simple lines and come in bright colour palettes. The design...

Selfies are a part of our modern, connected society and new ways of taking them emerge everyday from the Cat Selfies app to Sellotape selfies. Now we have animals taking selfies. National Geographic have partnered with Brazilian agency Diomedia to create their latest...

Desk pets definitely brighten your day at work and these adorable and sleek Desk Helpers are not just cute but are great as containers for your stationery and keeping you desk tidy. Joosepino is a South-Korea-based design studio. They offer five woodland creatures as...

Check out these adorable and quirky animal voice memo pads by Japanese illustrator Ko. Machiyama. The animal voice memos have been designed for you to express your mood to match each animal. You can even draw your own speech bubbles so it looks like the animals are...

We recently discovered the wonderful world of ceramic animals by Lisa Larson. You know the feeling when you see a painting, artwork or sculpture that looks very familiar but you don’t know the name of the artist. First we fell in love with her fox ceramic...

Jo Clark Design is definitely one of our favourite illustrators. Using Markers and pencils her style is so relaxed, simple but yet has really fine details as well. We found her illustrations so charming but effortless cool. Totally can imagine her art print gracing...